English (General)

Instructions :

(i) Read the questions carefully and answer them.

(ii) All questions are compulsory.

(iii) Marks allotted to each question are indicated against it.

Note : Answer each of the following questions (from Q. Nos. 1 to 8)

in about 2 or 3 sentences.

1. What was Sohrab's last wish ? 2

2. What remarkable ability did Akbar have ? 2

3. Why did Ivan's crops fail ? 2

4. Why did Prospero break his wand and burry his books ? 3

5. Why was Luke ready to go to the city ?

Or

Give one word for each of the following : 3

(a) Son's wife

(b) The smallest unit of an element

(c) A person who studied the science of medicine.

6. Why does the nurse ask the children to come home ? 2

7. What lesson do you learn from the poem 'The Milkmaid? 2

8. What qualities of the fountain does the poet wish to have ?

Or

What did the dancing girl say to Upagupta ? 2

9. Do as directed :

(a) Girls are plucking flowers.

(Add question-tag and rewrite the sentence) 1

(b) Mother will arrive here next week.

(Remove 'will' and rewrite the sentence without changing the meaning) 1

(c) I live in this house.

You should never enter it.

(Combine the pair of sentences using 'as long as' and rewrite) 1

10. Do as directed :

(a) He did his work.

(Change into negative and rewrite) 1

(b) To fall into bad company is easy for a young man.

(Rewrite the sentence beginning with 'It') 1

(c) They work hard.

(Make the sentence emphatic using 'do, does or did') 1

11 Do as directed :

(a) The Taj Mahal is very beautiful.

Every one praises it.

(Combine the pair of sentences using 'so ... that' and rewrite) 1

(b) If you do not sit quiet, the dog will attack you.

(Use Unless' in place of If ... . not and rewrite) 1

(c) We must treat them with sympathy.

(Rewrite the sentence using 'have got to + verb') 1

12. Write an essay on any one of the following topics in about 200 words :

(a) My Hobby

(b) Newspapers

(c) India of my dreams

(d) Science-Its uses and abuses

(e) Any Indian Festival. 8

13. You are Jaya Sharma living at New Colony. Ujjain. Write a letter to your fattier about your exam preparations.

Or

Write an application to your Principal requesting him to grant you

leave for four days as your mother is serious and you have to

attend her. You are Vinod Kumar a student of Govt. Boys Higher

Secondary School, Rajgarh. 5

14. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below:

India is a land of fields, farms and villages. Bukhatir, the most

remote and backward small village of our state, is awaking now.

But long ago there were three fools-Billu, Monu and Kadichand.

They were friends by chance. These three fools reached a city. A

big palace came to their sight whose towers' height was about fifty to sixty yards. They were perplexed to see the height of the tower and began to express their own folly.

Monu said, "How tall the kings were in ancient times who reached the top of the tower." Billu said, "You are a great fool, the kings

were not so tall at that time. This tower was made by lying it on the earth first and then it was erected."

Third one said. 'Both of you are big fools. It was a well, when it was pulled upside and it became a tower." Monu said, "Perhaps urban people knew some magic." Kadichand said, "Yes, you are right."

Once my father saw here a goldsmith throwing his gold into fire to

get pure and shining and really after a while the gold came out of

fire in its pure and shining form. But when my father used the same method to get pure and shining cotton, he got nothing but ashes.

Questions :

(a) How many fools were there ? 1

(b) What happened when they saw the tower ? 1

(c) What was the height of the tower ? 1

(d) Who said that the tower was a well ? 1

(e) Give a suitable title to the passage. 1

15. Translate any five of the following sentences into English 5